Destruction (act of perishing), 7 Diaphragm (midriff), 255 Diarrhoea, 247, 299 Diet, 35, 179, 255 Digestion, cause of, 243 impairment of, 185, 217, 237 Digestive tract, action on food, 251, _et seq._ structure (_v. Alimentary Canal_) Diocles, 51 Disease, definition of, 197 Diseases, the four primary, 185 Disjunctive argument, 167 Distribution (diadosis) of nutriment to tissues, 163 Dropsy, 41, 67, 171 Drugs, 65, 285, 293 (_v._ also _Poisons_) Dyscrasia (abnormal blending of the four qualities), 189 Dysentery, 205 Dyspepsia (_v. Indigestion_) Education, 279 Effect (product, work done), 13 Emaciation, 161 Emanations, 77 Embryo, 229 Emesis (_v. Vomiting_) Empiricist physicians, 69, 193 Emulsification, 239 Epicurus, 71 Epigastric muscles, 237 Epispastic (attractive), 117 Erasistratus, 95 Erasistrateans, 105 Etna, 259 Eucrasia (proper blending of the four qualities), 189 Evaporation, 51, 87, 251 Experience (_v. Empiricist physicians_) Expulsive faculty, 231 Faculty (potentiality), 13 Fæces (ordure from bowel), 255 Fermentation, 209 Fever as a cause of indigestion, 185 Fibres, 329 of blood, 215 circular and longitudinal, 263 oblique, 281 Filtration, 91 Fish, voraciousness of, 269 Flavour, 5 Fluxions, 297 Foetus (unborn child), 233 death of, 287 Forced-feeding, 247 Forces, material, 127, 301 Function (activity), cause of, 197 Gall-bladder, 147, 245 absence of nerves in, 289 Gardens, irrigation of, 325 Genesis (development of embryo), 19 Germander (drug), 67 Gestation (carrying of embryo by mother), 229 Give-and-take between organs, 295 Gravity (explaining secretion of urine), 107 Greediness, 271 Growth, 27, 137 Gullet, 263 use of, by stomach, 271 function of its two coats, 273 Gurgling in stomach, 237 Habit of body, 69 Hæmorrhage, intestinal, 297 Hæmorrhoids (_v. Piles_) Heartburn, 287 Heat, innate, 41, 141, 185 Hepatic veins (entering vena cava from liver), 147 Herophilus, 233 Hippocrates, 9, _et passim_ Histogenesis (tissue-production), 21 History, natural, 269 Homoeomeries (similar parts), 169 Homoeopathy, p. 199, Note 1 (276) Honey, 179, 191 Horror vacui ("Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum"), 99, 155 Humours, the four, origin of, 167, 183, 209 Hydragogues (drugs that draw water out of the system), 65 Ileus volvulus (obstruction of bowels), 299, 303 Illusions, sensory, 7 Indigestion, 185, 217, 237 Inductive reasoning, 227 Inflammation, 89, 233 Interaction of any two bodies, 251 Intestine, small, 255 Intestines, structure of, 283 movements of, 243 Ionia, 29 Iron, 71 Irrigation of gardens and tissues, 325 Jaundice, 179, 207 Jejunum (part of small intestine), 299 Kidneys, 49, 89 Labour (_v. Childbirth_)